Film category: 7532 books
by Denise J. Youngblood
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The golden age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russian Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov. Tensions ran high between creative freedom and institutional constraint, radical and reactionary impulses,...
From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay
Working with Plot Genotypes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), Syd Field first popularized the Three-Act Paradigm of Setup, Confrontation and Resolution for conceptualizing and creating the Hollywood screenplay. For Field, the budding screenwriter needs a clear screenplay structure, one which includes two...
Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men
Class in 1970s American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a violent conclusion to Easy Rider, murdering the film's representatives of countercultural alienation and disaffection. They lurk in the Georgia woods of Deliverance, attacking outsiders in a manner that evokes...
Robert Altman's Soundtracks
Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
American director Robert Altman (1925-2006) first came to national attention with the surprise blockbuster M*A*S*H (1970), and he directed more than thirty feature films in the subsequent decades. Critics and scholars have noted that music is central to Altman's films, and in addition to his feature...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human beings and ‘replicants’ is blurred, the film raises a host of philosophical questions...
Mapping Cinematic Norths
International Interpretations in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Mapping Cinematic Norths presents an international range of research and enquiry into the significance, representation and manipulation of depictions of the ‘North’ in cinema and television. Northern landscapes, soundscapes, characters and narratives are defined and recognized as distinctive image-spaces...
The Cinema Ideal
An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late ‘60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book was originally published. Psychoanalysis enables...
Border Visions
Identity and Diaspora in Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East, serve as places of cultural transfer and...
Sleaze Artists
Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore...
by Rebecca A. Umland
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Unlike such romanticized renegades as Robin Hood and Jesse James, there is another kind of outlaw hero, one who lives between the law and his own personal code. In times of crisis, when the law proves inadequate, the liminal outlaw negotiates between the social imperatives of the community and his...
Producing for Hollywood
A Guide for Independent Producers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Budding filmmakers, television producers, directors, writers, and students get a crash course on the independent production scene in this riveting account of the business and its key players. Now revised to reflect the latest production trends in the entertainment industry, this book is packed with...
Agnès Varda
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the "Mother of the New Wave" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment...
The Business of Film
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The updated second edition of this text introduces readers to the business of film at every stage of the filmmaking lifecycle, from planning and production to distribution. Authors Paula Landry and Stephen R. Greenwald offer a practical, hands-on guide to the business aspects of this evolving industry,...
by Liam White
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Robert Mitchum was one of the most charismatic stars of the ‘classic Hollywood’ era. His screen persona was the essence of cool: tough but vulnerable, accepting of his fate with languid charm and easy humour. His films have often been seen through the lens of film noir, but they had something else...